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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Gregory Stark <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Should creating a new base type require superuser status?
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:13:10 -0400
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Gregory Stark <[email protected]> writes:
> "Tom Lane" <[email protected]> writes:
>> Unless you're going to allow them to create new C functions, I'm not
>> clear on how much they're going to be able to change the semantics.

> Well there's plenty that can be done just using text or bytea as
> representations. citext, or uuid for example.

For the sort of look-ma-no-C programming that you seem to be
envisioning, I don't think that real base types are appropriate at all.
What might make sense is to handle it as a domain over some
suitably-generic base type.  The thing we'd have to fix to make that
work is the way that the ambiguous-function resolution rules
discriminate against functions that're declared to take domains.
Which is hard, but it seems a lot less likely to lead to weird
security risks than letting untrusted users mess with the details
of base-type operations.

Elein was going to go off in a corner and think about how to make that
work better, but I dunno if she's gotten anywhere yet.

			regards, tom lane

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